However, there are still several sporting disciplines that are solely for women: synchronized swimming, greco-roman wrestling and rhythmic gymnastics.
For women's only sporting events, netball has the highest attendance.
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32% of Australian women [aged 15+] participated in a sport-related activity at least once a week. 46% of Australian girls [aged 0-14] participated in organised outside-of-school hours sport-related activity at least once a week.
For example, football, basketball, baseball, wrestling, boxing and hockey are examples of male-dominated sports because they are thought of as being more “masculine.” On the other hand, gymnastics and figure skating are thought to be female-dominated sports because they are more “feminine.”
The AFL's participation estimate for females is 530,166 participants worldwide in 2021.
Australian rules football is the most popular sport in the country, both in terms of attendance and total spectatorship.
The Australian Sports Commission's official AusPlay survey has shown that soccer is once again the most popular sport to play in the country. The 'beautiful game' has 1,154,153 participants, followed by golf (742,231), Aussie Rules (699,940) and tennis (648,210).
Australian Rules Football is clearly the most popular spectator sport in Australia, though in terms of participation more men play golf, cricket and tennis. Rugby league is another popular sport, but not as a sport to play.
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The only Olympic sport that is unisex is equestrianism. However, there are different unisex races in extreme endurance sports.
Mixed-sex forms of ball sports involve set numbers of each sex per team, sometimes defining the roles in the team by sex/gender (examples include korfball, Baseball5, coed softball, quidditch, dodgeball, touch/tag rugby, wheelchair handball, and wheelchair rugby, wheelchair rugby league, and Netball).
In Australia more than 410,000 people play netball, and it is the highest participated team sport for females.
What is this? Australia is internationally renowned for cricket, and the Australian Men's Cricket Team has a higher percentage of successful matches than any other international team. However, although Australia is particularly good at cricket, Australians also love rugby, netball, swimming and surfing and more.
Football
It is the most popular sport in the world, with 250 million players in over 200 countries. A rectangular field with a goal at each end is used to play the game.
Viewership the NRL has 137 million viewers a season. The AFL has 126 million viewers a season. NRL is a better sport to watch on TV.
Soccer. Soccer has been played in Australia since the 1800's, with over 2 million people currently playing soccer in our country. For children aged 6 – 13, soccer has a participating of 48.7%, making is just as popular as swimming for the most played sport in that age group.
Foxtel survey also reveals that 72% of men in Australia are watching women's sport. A new survey carried out by pay-television broadcaster Foxtel has revealed that nearly 70 per cent of Australians watch more women's sport now than they did before 2020.
The AFLW is the most attended women's football competition in Australia and one of the most popular women's football competitions in the world.
Supporters of AFLW are not only attending games in strong numbers – almost one million Australians tuned in to the broadcasts of Round One (954,000 viewers in total and a three per cent increase compared to FTA in 2021).